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Story: Training the Falcons

Once there was a king who received a gift of two magnificent falcons from Arabia. They were peregrine falcons, the most beautifu...

Once
there was a king who received a gift of two magnificent falcons
from Arabia. They were peregrine falcons, the most beautiful birds
he had ever seen. He gave the precious birds to his head falconer
to be trained.

Months passed and one day the head falconer
informed the king that though one of the falcons was flying
majestically, soaring high in the sky, the other bird had not moved
from its branch since the day it had arrived.

The king
summoned healers and sorcerers from all the land to tend to the
falcon, but no one could make the bird fly. He presented the task to
the member of his court, but the next day, the king saw through
the palace window that the bird had still not moved from its perch.
Having tried everything else, the king thought to himself, "May be
I need someone more familiar with the countryside to understand
the nature of this problem." So he cried out to his court, "Go and
get a farmer."

In the morning, the king was thrilled to see
the falcon soaring high above the palace gardens. He said to his
court, "Bring me the doer of this miracle."

The court
quickly located the farmer, who came and stood before the king. The
king asked him, "How did you make the falcon fly?"

With
head bowed, the farmer said to the king, " It was very easy, your
highness. I simply cut the branch of the tree where the bird was
sitting."Moral :-
We are all made to fly - to realize our incredible potential
as human beings. But instead of doing that, we sit on our branches,
clinging to the things that are familiar to us. The possibilities
are endless, but for most of us, they remain undiscovered. We
conform to the familiar, the comfortable, the mundane. So for the
most part, our lives are mediocre instead of exciting, thrilling and
fulfilling. So let us learn to destroy the branch of fear we cling
to and free ourselves to the glory of flight..